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How to Eliminate Desire Without Suppression · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  How do we experience desire? For some, it comes as a drive to
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  possess something. We experience in the world
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  whether something seen heard felt Etc.
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  In other words, desire begins with something perceptible by
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  our senses in the past. This was there for something
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  close at hand. Nowadays, with the Advent of the
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  internet, broadcast, media and worldwide travel, we may have
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  desires that do not arise from immediately seizable objects and
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  thus require various steps in order to be achieved the
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  perception. However, it comes arises as a
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  feeling or more, precisely a craving for something we
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  experience as missing from ourselves.
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  The Pursuit Of The Objects of Desire can become all-consuming
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  and occupy our minds and senses all the time.
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  Fulfillment of a particular desire.
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  Does not in fact, lead to the cessation of Desire, rather it
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  leads to the transference of the craving to a new object. the
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  more we validate the seeking in fulfillment of Desire, the more
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  powerful that drive embeds itself in our psyche, Buddha
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  pointed out that this following of Desire, eventually leads to
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  suffering. And he suggested that the way to
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  happiness and fulfillment was through the removal of Desire.
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  Buthe was not alone in his perception, religious and
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  spiritual leaders and philosophers and thinkers have
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  identified. The need to overcome desire and
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  thus many methods have been tried.
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  Throughout human history, to accomplish this.
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  Some counseled achieving a desire free state by Indulgence
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  leading to eventual satiation and even a sense of avoidance
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  that comes through overindulgence others Council,
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  the use of a strongly developed will power to prevent the
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  expression of Desire. Both of these methods and their
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  various offshoots and Alternatives fail, to recognize
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  the mechanism of how desire enters into an individual and
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  then Rises to a level of perception and realization in
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  action. SRI aurobindo view desire, as a
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  vibration, that enters the being from outside and when accepted
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  then Rises and manifest for most individuals seemingly as
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  something belonging to them and arising from inside.
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  For those who see desire as an internal phenomenon, elimination
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  of desire and Tails a struggle against oneself.
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  Once an individual is able to shift the Viewpoint to see the
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  working of the universal forces that create desire, it becomes
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  more. A matter of tuning.
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  The focus away from those vibratory levels towards the
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  wider. Pure higher levels of the
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  spiritual awareness, desire, then can fall away as the focus
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  is successfully shifted. SRI aurobindo notes, quote, the
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  rejection of Desire is essentially the rejection of the
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  element of craving putting that out from the Consciousness
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  itself, as a foreign element, not belonging to the true self,
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  and the inner nature, but refusal to indulge the
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  suggestions of Desire is also a part of the rejection to abstain
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  from the action suggested. If it is not the right action
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  must be Did in the yogic discipline.
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  It is only when this is done in the wrong way by a mental
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  aesthetic principle or a hard moral rule, that it can be
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  called suppression the difference between suppression
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  and an inward essential rejection is the difference
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  between mental or moral control and a spiritual purification.
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  When one lives in the true Consciousness, one feels the
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  desires outside oneself entering from outside from the universal.
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  Lower prakrit e into the mind and the vital parts.
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  In the ordinary Human Condition. This is not felt men become
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  aware of the desire. Only when it is there, when it
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  is, come inside and found a lodging or a habitual harborage.
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  And so they think it is their own and a part of themselves.
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  The first condition for getting rid of Desire is therefore to
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  become conscious with the true Consciousness for then it
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  becomes much easier to dismiss it.
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  Then one has to I struggle with it as if it were a constituent
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  part of oneself to be thrown out from the being, it is easier to
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  cast off and accretion and to excise, what is felt as a parcel
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  of our substance when the psychic being is in front.
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  Then also to get rid of Desire becomes easy for the psychic
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  being has in itself. No desires.
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  It has only aspirations and a seeking and love for the divine.
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  Fine and all things that are or tend towards the Divine.
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  The constant prominence of the psychic being tens of itself to
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  bring out the true Consciousness and set, right?
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  Almost automatically the movement of the nature and
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  quote, reference SRI, aurobindo, and the mother living within the
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  yoga approach to psychological health and growth, disturbances
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  of the vital transforming the Pages 69 to 85.